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Create A Glossary for Your WordPress Site
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Create A Glossary for Your WordPress Site

Two WordPress plugins, Nathan Olsen’s WP-SNAP! and Joel Bennett’s Ubernyms work together to create an interactive glossary for your site. (Note that I no longer use this technique on my site).

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Microformats
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Microformats

Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats that use existing standards (aka XHTML) to add semantic meaning to what you publish on the web.

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Social Bookmarking
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Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving and categorizing web site addresses on a networked computer in a public web site for others to visit.

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An Interpretive Walk Through Mer Bleu
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An Interpretive Walk Through Mer Bleu

The interpretive walk at the Mer Bleue Boardwalk Trail is about more than being entertained or gathering random facts about ecologically sensitive bogs. It’s also about conveying the meaning and value of a place through informal learning.

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Interview with Etienne Wenger

These are terrific videos of an interview of and lecture by Etienne Wenger, a proponent of social learning theory and the concept of Communities of Practice.

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Links: News
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Links: News

These are online news sources I prefer to read. Many are well known as print sources of news, but I’ve made a point of including only those that offer good online resources as well.

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Design Experiments

The last couple of decades have witnessed the growing popularity of design research as a
valuable methodology for educational research.

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Christopher Alexander
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Christopher Alexander

English architect who founded the Center of Environmental Structures in Berkley, California. A controversial but influential theorist, especially of urban design.

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A Pictorial History of This Website

I am not a web designer. But I play on my web space. These are screenshots from my web sites dating back to 2004.

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My Learning Manifesto
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My Learning Manifesto

Self-directed learners are experimental. We try things out before really knowing how, and are always on the lookout for feedback to improve the next time round. It is this spirit of inquiry, that I’ve tried to capture in my personal learning manifesto: act like learning matters (because it does).

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